
Darren Elliott
About
My name is Darren Elliott and I have been teaching English since 1999. I started teaching for a chain of private language schools in Japan, and after getting my CELTA at RMIT in Australia I became a teacher trainer and manager for the same company. In 2005 I returned to the UK to study for both an MA in English Language Teaching and a DELTA, and to teach pre- and in-sessional courses on a university language programme. Since 2007 I have been teaching English at universities in Nagoya, Japan. I am currently associate professor / senior language instructor at Nanzan University. https://darrenrelliott.wordpress.comSessions
All Levels 'The kind of girl who eats pizza': Gender Representation in Graded Readers more
Research into the pedagogical benefits of Extensive Reading has bloomed in the last decade, yet socio-cultural content of ER materials has not received similar attention. While there is a significant body of literature related to gender in ELT textbooks, research into gender representation in English-language graded readers is nearly non-existent. The presenters worked to address this gap through a collaborative, two-pronged study of English graded readers. A set of narrative fiction readers and another of non-fiction readers, including titles from several publishers, were selected while considering relevance in the researchers' teaching context. The researchers examined and coded the visual and textual content in the selected readers for gendered representations and used content analysis to build a description of each set, then compared and contrasted the respective data. This session will present the findings in detail, explore the implications for instructors and ER programs, and note further avenues for related research.

